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Series Code: SISS
Program Code: SISS000106S
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00:31 James: Well, we are back. 00:33 I don't want to tell the Viewers 00:34 about all the troubles we've had 00:36 but let's just say we had a little mini-Daniel 10 yesterday. 00:39 Yvonne: I think we should. Jason: I think we should. 00:40 Ivor: Tell all the troubles that we had, yes. 00:44 All: Laughter. 00:46 Jason: Because, I mean, really, it just points to the fact 00:49 that the devil really doesn't want us to understand this book 00:52 and so, he really gets upset 00:54 when we try to study Bible prophecy and all of that stuff, 00:57 we had our water cut off in the area the other day... 01:01 Pastor Myers had his Internet cut off the other day 01:05 and the whole city... their Internet cut off... 01:07 I mean, what are the odds of that happening 01:10 when we're trying to Skype him in. 01:12 James: Yeah, and finish this Set... this Series 01:15 and especially after we got done with Daniel chapter 10 01:18 where we talked about that spiritual conflict 01:20 that was taking place 01:21 and the verse I thought about was the one in Ephesians 01:23 where it says that Satan is the prince of the power of the air, 01:26 you know, the Internet and all that service, 01:28 so, he's working, you know, 01:30 Pastor Myers, that was an unusual happening, right? 01:32 How often does the whole city get its Internet shut down? 01:35 Ivor: Yeah, I mean, we had finished our recording... 01:38 we're like, "We're going to go do lunch, 01:40 we're going to come back... we're going to hit Daniel 11 01:43 23 onward... " and the next thing I know 01:47 my Internet is just gone... the whole city... outage 01:50 and they were like, 01:52 "It will be back on, like, in an hour... " 01:56 it didn't come back on till last night 01:59 so, yeah, that was the most important thing happening 02:05 in my city... 02:07 yesterday was this recording, so... 02:11 All: Laughter. 02:13 Ivor: The Devil was like, "Nah! we've got to shut this down!" 02:14 James: "Got to shut it down. " 02:16 I love the way you think... that's beautiful 02:19 and we also, you know, are facing a deadline... 02:22 today's our deadline, really, for getting finished here, 02:24 and we really want to finish this Series up. 02:26 We were talking about, you know, how... 02:28 how many years it's been since we started this 02:30 and we really want to get this done 02:32 so, and we're in a very important part 02:34 of the book of Daniel... 02:36 now, all of it is important 02:37 and Daniel 9, of course, is foundational 02:39 but Daniel 11 is one of the most difficult 02:41 and challenging parts of this whole book 02:43 and there's a lot of views on this 02:46 so, we're not going to try to say, 02:48 "Well, this is the only view" or "This is the right view" 02:50 we're simply going to go in 02:52 and see what the texts are telling us 02:54 in relationship to history... 02:57 Bible prophecy is a revelation of history... 03:00 past... present and future 03:01 and we're going to see that in Daniel chapter 11. 03:03 When we get to the end of Daniel 11, 03:06 Michael stands up when Probation closes... that's future history 03:10 and we're moving closer and closer to that point 03:13 so we know those verses in the latter part of Daniel 11 03:15 are going to be applicable to us right now. 03:17 I think we're going to be able to pinpoint 03:19 where we are right now basically in Daniel chapter 11. 03:22 So, we want to, of course, have a word of prayer 03:25 as we enter into this, 03:26 Jason, if you'd like to pray for us. 03:28 Jason: "Dear Heavenly Father, 03:29 we thank You for allowing all of this to come into fruition 03:33 and even though there has been setbacks and challenges, Lord, 03:37 You've overcome them and so we're grateful for that. 03:40 Now, we just ask for the outpouring of Your Holy Spirit 03:43 as we seek to understand what we're learning 03:46 and we're hearing 03:47 and be with the Viewers as well 03:49 and help them to be receptive to the message, 03:52 in Jesus' name we pray, amen. " 03:53 All: Amen. 03:54 James: So, basically we have looked at Daniel 11 03:58 from verses 1 all the way through to about verse 22 04:02 and we started out with Medo-Persia 04:04 because Babylon has passed from the scene... 04:06 that was in the first couple of verses... 04:08 then we transitioned into Greece 04:11 and what we see here in Daniel 11 04:13 beginning with verse, I think, it is verse 3, 04:17 is the King of Greece 04:20 which is Alexander the Great, the 1st king 04:22 and that takes us all the way down to verse 14 04:25 and verse 14... we saw "the robbers of thy people 04:28 establishing the vision... " 04:30 and that word "robbers" means breakers 04:33 and that connects with Daniel 7 and verse 7 04:35 and points us to Rome... 04:37 Rome begins to rise up in its pagan form 04:39 and that takes us to verses at least 20 to 22 04:43 where we see "a raiser of taxes" standing up in the kingdom 04:46 which is Augustus Caesar... 04:47 we correlated that to Luke chapter 2 verse 1 04:50 that when Christ was born, His parents went to Bethlehem 04:54 to be... to pay the taxes and to be registered 04:57 and then in verse 21, 05:00 a vile person stands up in his estate... 05:02 Tiberius follows Augustus Caesar... 05:05 he wasn't loved by the people like Augustus was 05:07 and it's under Tiberius Caesar that Jesus Christ is crucified, 05:11 that's why it says in verse 22, 05:13 "the prince of the covenant is going to be broken" 05:15 and then it also says that by... 05:17 "with the arms of a flood 05:19 they shall be overflown from before him... " 05:20 and that points to the destruction of Jerusalem. 05:22 So, in verses 20 to 22, we have the birth of Christ... 05:26 the death of Christ 05:27 and the destruction of Jerusalem. 05:28 That's a basic summary of what we've studied so far 05:32 in Daniel chapter 11. 05:33 We haven't gone into all of the details... 05:36 there's a lot of detailed here 05:37 and it's really... there's some really good stuff here, you know 05:40 there's a book that I would, you know, recommend on this 05:44 that... that really covers this well, 05:45 it's Uriah Smith's Daniel and the Revelation... 05:48 I don't think he has everything, you know, 05:50 just like I would want to see it, 05:52 especially in the verses we're going to cover right now, 05:54 leading on to the end 05:56 but this first half is excellent 05:58 and I've got notes all through my Bible 06:00 from that book from this first half 06:02 that are really good and really accurate historically 06:05 so, Ivor, is there anything else there that we've... 06:09 that you want to cover 06:10 before we move into the next part of this Section? 06:12 Ivor: No... I think... I think we've covered that sufficiently 06:16 so, we want to look for that next transition point 06:20 that we were talking about on the last Program 06:22 looking for these transition points... 06:25 not getting into the, you know, details of the... 06:29 of the previous powers that come on the scene 06:33 but looking for those transition points 06:35 and... and with Rome, 06:37 we definitely wanted to focus in on where Christ could be found 06:42 which, as you pointed out, is in the center of the chapter 06:46 but there you see Christ, you know, being attacked by Rome 06:50 crucified... the Prince of the covenant being broken 06:55 and then we will remember that after Rome, we... 07:00 the next power we are looking for 07:02 is what we have seen consistently 07:04 in the previous chapters. 07:05 James: Hmmm... hmmm... 07:07 Ivor: Right? Daniel 2... Daniel 7... Daniel 8 07:09 so, if we just do again a really quick recap in Daniel 2, 07:14 we see after the fall of Rome... 07:19 the legs of iron... James: Pagan Rome. 07:21 Ivor: We see... yeah, we see the toes of iron and clay 07:25 so, there is an iron element within the toes 07:29 which comes out of the legs of Rome... it continues... 07:32 this is the... this would be the... 07:36 the, you know, Roman Governments 07:39 but then you have this rising up of this clay element 07:43 mingled with the iron 07:46 and that represents the rise of a new kind of kingdom... 07:50 a kingdom that is different from the metals 07:53 of the head of gold... 07:55 the chest down to silver... 07:56 the belly and thighs of brass... 07:58 the legs of iron... 07:59 this is clay... 08:00 James: This is clay. 08:02 Ivor: And we've discovered that that clay 08:04 is a power that is represented in the Bible 08:06 as a people molded by God, right, God is their Maker. 08:12 James: Professing to be molded by God, yeah. 08:14 Ivor: Right, so you have Daniel 2... 08:17 you've got the clay mingled with the iron... 08:19 this is a religious power rising out of Rome. 08:21 James: Hmmm... hmmm... 08:22 Ivor: In Daniel 7, it is the Little Horn 08:25 that rises on the fourth beast... 08:29 it's still one beast, right... James: Right. 08:33 Ivor: Like in Daniel 4, there's only four kingdoms... 08:35 I mean, in Daniel 2, there's only four kingdoms. 08:37 James: Hmmm... hmmm... 08:38 Ivor: There's not five kingdoms, it's four, 08:40 right, so the clay is part of the fourth kingdom. 08:45 James: Right.. Yvonne: Hmmm... hmmm... 08:47 Ivor: In Daniel 7, the Little Horn 08:49 is part of the fourth kingdom 08:51 but in Daniel 8, we now see God using one symbol 08:58 right, not two different parts of it like, 09:00 you know, clay and iron... 09:02 Little Horn and fourth beast... 09:04 now He just merges it into one Power 09:07 and there's a reason He's doing that 09:09 because He's trying to move us 09:11 from double vision to single vision, right? 09:13 "I need you to focus in on this particular power... " 09:17 and so, in Daniel 8... in verse 9, 09:21 the Bible says, "Out of one of them came forth a Little Horn" 09:24 this is the same Little Horn of Daniel 7, 09:27 now you're going to see this Little Horn wax exceeding great 09:30 toward the south... toward the east... 09:32 toward the Pleasant Land 09:33 and I want you to notice verse 10... 09:35 "It waxed great, even to the host of heaven" 09:37 that would be the people of God... 09:40 and it cast down some of the host and of the stars 09:42 to the ground, and stamped upon them. " 09:45 So, this is... this is a persecuting power 09:49 against the people of God, 09:50 we've seen that this is what... to Jerusalem, right, 09:53 verse 11, "Yea, he magnified himself 09:56 even to the prince of the host... " 09:59 all right, this is what we just read in Daniel 11:22, 10:03 right... same prince of the host... 10:07 prince of the covenant, right, 10:09 is being persecuted or being broken here 10:13 and this is Pagan Rome without a question... 10:18 "by him the daily was taken away, 10:21 and the place of his sanctuary cast down. " 10:24 What did Rome do? 10:26 In 70 A.D., they cast down the truth to the ground 10:31 and they practiced... I'm sorry... 10:33 excuse me... 10:34 they cast down the sanctuary, right, 10:38 they destroyed the sanctuary... the temple in 70 A.D. 10:43 so, you see Rome doing these things 10:47 but this power transitions into Papal Rome 10:53 which we will see does the same thing... 10:58 do the same thing but on a spiritual level. 11:02 James: Hmmm... hmmm... 11:04 Ivor: Right, this is why we get down to verse 13 11:07 and the question is about the sanctuary... 11:12 how long will this Little Horn be able to do these things 11:15 regarding the sanctuary 11:16 and we have this 2300-day prophecy 11:18 which pushes it way into the future... 11:21 way beyond the Roman Empire. 11:22 James: Hmmm... hmmm... 11:24 Ivor: Okay, so, we're looking at this one symbol... 11:28 the Little Horn representing Rome in its Pagan Phase 11:33 and then its Papal Phase. 11:36 James: Okay. 11:37 Ivor: Okay, when we go to Daniel 11, 11:41 we ought to be looking for the same power 11:44 being described or the same transition 11:48 being described almost as if... if it were one. 11:52 James: Hmmm... hmmm... 11:54 Ivor: So, let's go to Daniel 11 and let's read verses 22 and 23, 11:59 by the way... key point here... 12:01 the Little Horn starts out little and waxes great. 12:06 James: Hmmm... hmmm... Yvonne: Hmmm... 12:07 Ivor: That's in Daniel 7... 12:09 it's also described in Daniel 8 the same way. 12:13 Starts out small... 12:14 and then grows big... waxes great. 12:17 That's the transition point we're looking for 12:19 so, let's go to Daniel 11 and let's read verses 22 and 23. 12:23 Jason: Okay, "With the force of a flood 12:26 they shall be swept away from before Him and be broken, 12:29 and also the prince of the covenant. 12:31 And after the league... " 12:33 Ivor: That's Rome... go ahead. 12:35 Jason: "And after the league is made with him 12:37 he shall act deceitfully, 12:39 for he shall come up and become strong 12:41 with a small number of people. " 12:43 Ivor: Okay, so, here we have this transition... 12:48 you see this transition of this power starting small 12:55 and becoming... 12:58 a host is given to it if you will, right, 13:03 it grows in power and might... 13:06 it starts small... it grows big... 13:08 Daniel 11:22... we have the covenant... 13:12 the prince of the covenant being broken 13:15 and then the very next verse 13:17 almost as if this is the same power 13:20 but because we've seen this transition 13:22 in the previous chapters, 13:24 we have to identify this... verse 23 13:28 as that same Little Horn in its Papal Phase 13:33 growing... starting small 13:36 and growing... to use the words of Daniel 8, 13:41 a host being given it 13:44 so that it becomes great. 13:46 So, verse 23 is where we have our transition point 13:51 from Pagan Rome... 13:52 and the most important point of Pagan Rome 13:55 is that it crucifies Christ, right, 13:57 so, once you see that in verse 23, 14:00 everything else it does after that, 14:03 you know, is kind of like... insignificant 14:05 in light of what God's trying to show us. 14:07 James: Hmmm... hmmm... 14:09 Pagan Rome's crucified Christ, 14:10 all right, you... you got that? 14:11 Now, we're going to transition to the Little Horn 14:14 and from verse 23 onward, it's all Papacy. 14:18 James: Okay. 14:19 Ivor: God is not going to go into the detail 14:22 of why this power brings about the standing up of Michael 14:29 in Daniel chapter 12 and verse 1. 14:31 James: Okay... 14:33 so Daniel chapter 2 we have four earthly kingdoms 14:36 before we see God's kingdom established... 14:38 Daniel chapter 8, we have the same earthly king... 14:40 or 7... we have four... same four earthly kingdoms 14:43 before God's kingdom is given to the saints of the Most High. 14:45 Daniel chapter 8, we have the same kingdoms 14:47 with Babylon left out 14:49 and then leading, of course, to the establishment 14:51 of God's kingdom. 14:53 In Daniel chapter 11, 14:54 we're following the same basic outline 14:55 and we transitioned now in Daniel 11 verse 23 15:00 from Pagan Rome to Papal Rome that starts small 15:04 and grows until a host is given unto it... 15:08 until it has a large support base behind it. 15:11 Is that what you're saying so far? 15:13 Ivor: Yeah. 15:14 James: And so, we see a transition taking place 15:16 but it's sometimes hard to discern that transition 15:18 because the principles of the iron 15:21 are still connected with the clay... 15:24 the professed religious power in the image 15:26 and we see that same connection taking place in Daniel 7, 15:29 Daniel 8 and now in Daniel 11. 15:32 Ivor: Yeah. 15:33 James: Okay, and so we're just trying to nuance that... 15:35 where is that transition taking place 15:36 and it's really... it's clear as we get up to the latter part 15:40 of this... well, the... on in this chapter, 15:43 let's just pick up, for example, in verse 30, 15:46 it talks about the ships of Chittim coming against him, 15:51 Yvonne, could you read that for us, verses 30, 31 and 32. 15:55 Yvonne: Sure, "For ships from Cyprus... " 15:59 which is the same as... 16:00 it's a... the King James versus the New King James, right? 16:03 James: Yeah, yeah. Ivor: Hmmm... hmmm... 16:05 "For ships from Cyprus shall come against him; 16:07 therefore he shall be grieved, 16:09 and return in rage against the holy covenant, 16:11 and do damage. 16:12 So he shall return and show regard 16:15 for those who forsake the holy covenant. 16:17 And forces shall be mustered by him, 16:19 and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress; 16:22 then they shall take away the daily sacrifices, 16:25 and place there the abomination of desolation. 16:28 Those who do wickedly against the covenant 16:31 he shall corrupt with flattery; 16:33 but the people who know their God shall be strong, 16:36 and carry out great exploits. " 16:38 James: Okay, so, these verses are clearly stepping us 16:42 into this transition because the... 16:45 the main focus of all of these verses 16:47 is the holy covenant... I don't know if you've noticed that. 16:49 Yvonne: Hmmm... 16:50 James: It was mentioned again and again and again. 16:52 In verse 30... the holy covenant. 16:54 Ivor: James, it's important for us to... to stress that 16:57 because from verse 23 to verse 29, it... it's... 17:02 you have all these like... military battles going on, 17:07 right, so remember that the Papacy is a two-fold Power. 17:11 It is a civil and religious power 17:14 right, and that's what makes it different 17:17 from these other kingdoms. 17:18 James: Yes. 17:20 Ivor: So, from verse 23 to 29, 17:23 you have these military battles going on 17:25 but from verse 30, you see this transition... 17:31 everything from verse 30 up to verse 39 17:34 is spiritual in nature. 17:36 James: Hmmm... hmmm... Yvonne: Hmmm... hmmm... 17:38 Ivor: Right, and so, we want to keep that in mind 17:42 and we are focusing in on the spiritual aspect 17:45 of this power from verse 30... 17:49 that's why you see the holy covenant introduced 17:52 and from there on out, 17:54 you're going to see the spiritual aspect... 17:57 the spiritual side of this Little Horn. 17:59 Yvonne: Hmmm... 18:00 Ivor: Yeah, and so, as we think about that, 18:02 the holy covenant, the holy covenant... 18:03 the holy covenant mentioned over and over again 18:07 and even the prince of the covenant... 18:08 there's got to be some significance to that, 18:11 you know, why would Daniel specifically bring up 18:13 that phrase? 18:15 And I believe the reason he does that is because 18:17 he... Daniel 11... God is inspiring Daniel 18:21 to kind of summarize in Daniel 11... 18:23 remember what you said yesterday, Ivor, 18:26 it's parallel and zoom... 18:27 parallel and zoom... 18:29 so, we're paralleling in Daniel 11 18:31 the previous chapters... previous visions 18:34 and then we're zooming in. 18:36 Well, the zoom-in is really significant because 18:39 what Daniel has actually been talking about 18:42 in the previous chapters is the New Covenant. 18:45 It's the holy covenant 18:46 but he hasn't really used that terminology... 18:49 he's used different terminology. 18:51 In Daniel chapter 7 for example, 18:54 the Little Horn attacks the Law of God... 18:56 thinks to change times and laws. 18:57 How is that connected to the New Covenant? 18:59 In Daniel chapter 8, 19:01 the Little Horn attacks the mediation of Christ 19:03 in the heavenly sanctuary. 19:04 How does that connect with the holy covenant? 19:06 So, we want to read some verses in Hebrews chapter 10 19:10 that identify for us specifically... or Hebrews 8... 19:13 that identify for us specifically 19:15 what the holy covenant is. 19:16 Now, we did look at Hebrews 10 before 19:19 but we want to go back now to Hebrews 8 19:21 because Hebrews 8 is a... 19:23 I think a more comprehensive definition of the holy covenant 19:26 and if you start here in Hebrews 8 and verse 6 19:31 and let's read all the way through verse 10. 19:34 Jason, could you read those verses for us? 19:35 Actually, let's read all the way to verse 12... 19:37 Hebrews chapter 8 verses 6 through 12. 19:39 Jason: Okay, 19:41 "But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, 19:44 inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, 19:48 which was established on better promises. 19:51 For if that first covenant had been faultless, 19:54 then no place would have been sought for a second. 19:57 Because finding fault with them, 19:59 He says: Behold, the days are coming, 20:01 says the Lord, 20:03 when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel 20:05 and with the house of Judah... 20:07 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers 20:10 in the day when I took them by the hand 20:12 to lead them out of the land of Egypt; 20:14 because they did not continue in My covenant, 20:17 and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 20:20 For this is the covenant that I will make 20:22 with the house of Israel after those days, 20:24 says the Lord: 20:25 I will put my laws in their mind 20:27 and write them on their hearts; 20:30 and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 20:33 None of them shall teach his neighbor, 20:36 and none his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' 20:40 for all shall know Me, 20:41 from the least of them to the greatest of them. 20:45 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, 20:47 and their sins and their lawless deeds 20:51 I will remember no more. " 20:52 James: Okay, so, we're just going to settle here 20:57 for just a few minutes on verses 10 through 12 specifically. 21:00 The context tells us this is a new covenant. 21:02 What does it involve? 21:04 Well, the first thing you notice in verse 10 21:07 is that it involves God putting His law 21:10 in our hearts and minds. 21:12 So, in Daniel 7... 21:13 the Little Horn attacks the Law of God. 21:16 What's he attacking? 21:17 The New Covenant, you see that? 21:19 Yvonne: Hmmm... hmmm... 21:20 James: And then it also involves in verse 12, 21:22 being merciful to unrighteousness 21:24 and taking our sins and iniquities 21:27 and remembering them no more. 21:28 Yvonne: Hmmm... 21:30 James: That's the mediation of Christ 21:31 in the heavenly sanctuary 21:32 so, the New Covenant involves Christ's mediation 21:34 for forgiveness for our sins... 21:36 in Daniel chapter 8, he attacks the sanctuary. 21:39 What's he really attacking? 21:40 The New Covenant... you see that? 21:42 Yvonne: Okay. 21:44 James: So, when we get to Daniel 11, 21:45 the connection is really clear when you understand 21:48 that Daniel 8 is attack of the New Covenant, 21:50 Daniel 7 is attack of the New Covenant... 21:52 so when Daniel says, "he's against the covenant... 21:55 he's fighting against the covenant... 21:56 he's having... he tells them to forsake the covenant... " 21:58 it's... it's the same power. 22:00 Does that make sense? 22:01 Yvonne: Yes. James: Same power... 22:02 and so we see that connection here when we hook in to 22:06 an understanding of the New Covenant. 22:08 Now, it's really important for us 22:10 to get this in a broader picture 22:12 because there are three other elements to the New Covenant 22:15 that we don't always pick up on. 22:16 Yvonne: Hmmm... 22:18 James: One of the elements that was mentioned 22:19 in verse 11 is, "They shall not teach every man his neighbor, 22:23 and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: 22:25 for all will know me, 22:26 from the least to the greatest. " 22:28 That's really something isn't it? 22:29 Yvonne: Hmmm... is that proclaiming the gospel? 22:33 James: Well, let's look at a Bible verse real quick... 22:35 I think it explains this really well... 22:37 just over a few pages in 1st John... 22:40 1st John... and we'll look at chapter 2 22:43 and look at verse 20 and then jump down to verse 27, 22:50 20 and 27 of 1st John chapter 2. 22:52 Yvonne, can you read those for us? 22:54 Yvonne: Yes... 22:55 "But you have an anointing from the Holy One, 22:57 and you know all things. 22:59 But the anointing which you have received from Him 23:03 abides in you, 23:04 and you do not need that anyone teach you; 23:06 but as the same anointing teaches you 23:09 concerning all things, and is true, 23:11 and is not a lie, 23:12 and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him. " 23:16 James: That's talking about the Holy Spirit. 23:17 Jason: Hmmm... Yvonne: Hmmm... 23:19 James: When the New Covenant says, 23:20 "We will not teach every man his neighbor, 23:22 and every man his brother, saying, 23:23 Know the Lord: we're all going to know Him. " 23:24 It's talking about the fact that the Holy Spirit 23:26 who is the Author of Scripture 23:27 is going to give an anointing to every single individual. 23:30 See, that's the road we're on, 23:32 God has called us as pastors and teachers 23:35 not to be the end of information and knowledge and truth 23:39 but to be a channel to information and knowledge 23:42 and truth, so that every single person 23:44 can actually go directly to God 23:46 through the anointing of the Holy Spirit. 23:48 Last night, we had a little session together... 23:50 a little Bible Study together 23:51 and we're talking about different topics 23:53 and we kept going back to the Word of God... 23:55 the Word of God... the Word of God 23:56 and people started having these "ah ha" moments 24:00 not because of anyone's... any person's teaching 24:02 but because of what the Word of God teaches, 24:04 you see what I'm saying? Yvonne: Yes. 24:05 James: So it's not like we don't need Pastors and Teachers 24:08 but it's like... if you've ever been sitting in a sermon... 24:10 you've been listening to this guy preaching the Word of God 24:13 and... and he's showing you verse by verse 24:15 the certain truth you want... "I see that!" 24:16 Yvonne: Yes! 24:18 James: It's not his stuff that you're seeing... 24:19 it's God's stuff that you're seeing 24:21 and it's the Holy Spirit that's teaching you. 24:22 Yvonne: Yes. James: That's the point 24:23 and the Little Horn Power 24:25 is against that part of the covenant too. 24:27 The Little Horn Power wants to say, "No, no, no, no, no... 24:30 you don't go to the Word of God to get your teaching, 24:32 you come to me to get your teaching... 24:34 you come to my traditions to get your teachings... " 24:35 you see that? Yvonne: Interesting, yes. 24:37 James: So, when we look at Daniel 11, 24:39 we're going to be entering into the Dark Ages 24:41 and in the Dark Ages, 24:43 the Bible was chained to the pulpit. 24:45 People couldn't read it... it was against the law, 24:47 it was forbidden to have a Bible... 24:49 you had to go to the Priest, you see what I'm saying? 24:51 All: Hmmm... 24:52 James: And this is an attack against the holy covenant. 24:54 Now, there are two more things here 24:56 that we just want to touch on because we're... 24:58 we're getting low on time but I... I think they're important. 25:00 In... in Hebrews chapter 8, yeah, chapter 8 again, 25:03 I just want us to slip back there to Hebrews chapter 8, 25:06 there's something that's repeated over and over again 25:09 when God gives this... 25:10 and I'm going to emphasize it, 25:12 I want to see if you can catch it. 25:13 It says in verse 10, 25:15 "For this is the covenant that I will make 25:17 with the house of Israel... 25:18 I will put the law in their hearts... 25:20 I will be their God... 25:21 I will be merciful to their unrighteousness... 25:24 I will remember their sins no more... " 25:25 who's the person that's doing all this? 25:26 All: God. James: It's God... okay... 25:28 Jason: Yeah, yeah. 25:30 James: So, this is all about what God does it... His power... 25:31 the New Covenant is His power... 25:33 the Old Covenant is our power... 25:34 the New Covenant is His power... 25:36 relying on God to do all of these things 25:39 and then it says... and this is the last one... 25:42 "I'll be their God... they'll be My people... " 25:44 and that's relationship. Yvonne: Hmmm... 25:46 So, when you go to the book of Daniel now 25:47 and you start all over again... 25:49 read it as though you're looking for the New Covenant. 25:51 You're looking for Daniel 25:52 and God's people have this relationship with Him 25:55 to be filled with His Spirit 25:56 so, they know all things... 25:57 they don't need anyone to teach them... any man to teach them 26:00 to trust in His power... not their power, right, 26:03 to have His law in their hearts 26:05 and have their sins and iniquities forgiven. 26:07 Yvonne: Hmmm... 26:08 Jason: That's really interesting 26:10 because in the beginning of Daniel, 26:11 they were trying to reprogram them, yeah, 26:15 with the wine... James: With the wine of Babylon. 26:17 Jason: Yes, and the whole education... educational system. 26:20 James: And Ivor brought that out with the wine of Babylon, 26:23 of course, is that spiritual wine 26:25 that is going to be poured out, not poured out 26:27 but offered to the world in the end of time... 26:30 the cup of wine 26:32 in the hand of the Babylonianish whore in Revelation chapter 17 26:36 is... the... the nations are made drunk with that... 26:39 with that wine... Yvonne: Hmmm... 26:41 James: Re-programming... 26:42 so, God wants to re-program us with His Word 26:44 and not with the teachings of man. 26:46 Yvonne: And the wine is doctrinal error? 26:48 James: Doctrinal error in the cup of the... the harlot 26:52 but Christ also uses that 26:55 to denote doctrinal truth... new wine. 26:57 Yvonne: Hmmm... Jason: hmmm... 26:59 James: The truth is also noted, you know, to be wine but... 27:01 but primarily in Revelation, we see the wine representing 27:04 the errors of the teachings of the harlot... definitely. 27:09 Ivor: Specifically, the book of Proverbs tells us, 27:12 "Do not drink wine, lest you drink and forget the law. " 27:19 James: Yes. Yvonne: Hmmm... 27:21 Ivor: The drinking of wine leads to forgetting the law 27:24 which is exactly what this Mystery Babylon Power 27:27 seeks to do... 27:28 it wants to lead the world to forget the law 27:30 and specifically one of God's commandments... 27:33 the one that He said to remember. 27:35 James: Yes. 27:36 Ivor: So, that becomes the central point... 27:37 the keeping of the commandments of God 27:41 and the testimony of Jesus in the last days 27:44 in the book of Revelation 27:46 and that's what Daniel is talking about here. 27:48 James: Hmmm... hmmm... Jason: Hmmm... 27:49 Yvonne: Wow! James: So, we're going to see 27:50 that's a vital connection you're making there 27:52 between Daniel and Revelation. 27:53 We're going to see that happen more and more 27:55 as we get into the rest of Daniel chapter 11 27:56 but for now, our time is all gone, 27:58 so, we'll pick this up in our next Session. |
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